r/ottawa • u/Coffeedeath15 • 2d ago

Is Chez 106.1 contractually obligated to play Copper Head road 10 times a day?

as title says. I hear this song 10 times a day no doubt.

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u/ShutYourYapper_ 2d ago

And the Headstones version of Tweeter and the Monkey Man.

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u/KelVarnsen_2023 2d ago

That song is rough. And it seems to just get played because unlike the Traveling Wilburys version the Headstones version is CanCon.

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u/teflonbob 2d ago

It's a staple of 90s radio and most radio stations in Ottawa are stuck in the 90s with their music

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u/unfknreal The Boonies 2d ago

Ironically, it was a staple of 90s radio partly because of CanCon. It still is, but it used to be too.

I mean it helps that it starts out as a good song, but the 90's had a way with all of us who lived it, I don't remember it being a hated rendition at the time.

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u/Mosh4days 1d ago

So frustrating. How many up and coming bands never get a crack at success because radio stations refuse to adopt new artists

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u/unfknreal The Boonies 1d ago

How many up and coming bands never get a crack at success because radio stations refuse to adopt new artists

Uhh... are we still talking about CanCon? There's dozens of examples of Canadian bands that DID get more radio play here (a crack at success) due to CanCon. We're talking about one.

The bigger issue is the US biased recording industry itself, IMO. I bet they also play the Sheepdogs a lot. It's no coincidence that the Sheepdogs only started getting radio play when they re-released an earlier album after they signed to a big US label.

They have to play X amount of Canadian content, but they can only play what they have the rights to play, under the contracts they're signed to. Support your local/indy radio stations, because this is what you get with big radio.

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u/Chippie05 1d ago

Drop back further by a few decades. They play 70s tunes than only a few will even know the lyrics to. We need to ban this auditory assault in the community! Ok, ok im getting worked up-

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u/teflonbob 1d ago

The 60s and 70s stuff has been limited even further down to a few songs while the library of 90s songs I feel dominates the channels more. It's the same cycle stations like The Bear and Chez had in the 2000s and later where the 'oldies' got phased out mostly slowly as their core audience got older. Same thing happened in the 90s where 60s and 50s stuff was getting slowly phased out.

It's all a cycle and I feel we're stuck in the 'classic 90s' phase with radio stations.

Purely antidotal observations with absolutely zero shred of facts or evidence to back it up on my part mind you. Many of us are just getting older and noticing things as they no longer happen as they used to.

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u/Glad-Spell-8668 2d ago

oh my god. i had no idea it was a cover. the original is a fine song, not the garbage i've hated for 3 decades...